Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division . |
| 2 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 3 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 4 | The essence of the prosecution case would have been the use by the respondent of excessive force towards two members of the family of the Murphy brothers in the course of removing them from the vicinity of a police van into which the brothers were being placed . |
| 5 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 6 | When I protested , they assured me that there would be no question of hiding me from the crowd . |
| 7 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 8 | In 1955 the new British Conservative premier , Anthony Eden , took the lead in salvaging something from the wreck of EDC . |
| 9 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 10 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 11 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
| 12 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 13 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
| 14 | The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate . |
| 15 | But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea . |
| 16 | In the United States , Australia and other parts of the world , deposits are secondary and are mined with much less disturbance by digging them from the sites to which natural processes have moved them . |
| 17 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 18 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 19 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 20 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 21 | Most of the other appointees were not senior members of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , as the government continued its policy of distancing itself from the party . |
| 22 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 23 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |
| 24 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 25 | Shortly before the war , she had committed suicide by throwing herself from the bridge into the path of a train . |
| 26 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 27 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 28 | Whether their inclination was to enhance the symbiotic relationship of church and state or , for those of them tending towards support of Tractarianism , to reunify the church by distancing it from the state while reinforcing respect for its ordinance , hierarchy and ‘ Catholic ’ traditions , nonconformists were likely to perceive either process as antithetical to their status , rights and interests . |
| 29 | The godly had some success in severing their connection with the church by banishing them from the churchyard , but the old festal calendar survived and the activities associated with it — mumming at New Year , dancing at Candlemas , football and other games at Shrovetide , and maypole dancing on Mayday — were relocated in and around the village ale-house . |
| 30 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |